Licy Do Canto joined Joe Miller to discuss new legislation that proposes to use data mapping to save moms’ lives.

Bio

As Managing Director of
BCW Healthcare in the firm’s Public Affairs and Crisis practice, Licy Do Canto
(@LicyMD) leads policy and
public affairs strategy for the firm’s healthcare clients in North America
across public and corporate affairs, government relations, communications and
reputation management on a diverse and broad range of healthcare issues. He
also oversees the BCW Healthcare Team in Washington, D.C.

An expert in health and
healthcare policy, with twenty five years of experience at the national, state
and local levels across the nonprofit, philanthropic, corporate and government
sectors, Licy is an accomplished, values-driven leader with unparalleled
experience in developing and leading integrated public affairs campaigns
combining strategic communications, public relations, political and legislative
initiatives, policy, coalition building, grassroots/grasstops efforts and
direct advocacy.

Before joining BCW, Licy
built and lead a nationally recognized minority owned strategic public affairs
and communications firm, served as Health Practice Chair and Principal at The
Raben Group, was the Chief Executive Officer of The AIDS Alliance for Children,
Youth and Families, and managed and helped set the leadership direction for
strategic policy, communications and advocacy investments in executive and
senior government affairs roles for the American Cancer Society and the
nation’s Community Health Centers.

Before joining the
private sector, Licy served as health policy advisor to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank
and served in several stints in the Office of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
During his extensive tenure in Washington, D.C., Licy has played a leading role
in efforts to draft, shape and enact many pieces of legislation and policy
affecting public health, health care safety net and the U.S. health care
system.

Licy is a graduate of Duke University and holds
a certificate in public health leadership from the University of North Chapel
Hill—School of Public Health and Kenan Flagler Business School, and is the
recipient of multiple industry awards and citations for his leadership, policy
and public affairs acumen, including being named to The Hill Newspaper list
of most influential leaders in Washington, D.C. consecutively over the last ten
years.

Resources

News Roundup

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues his crusade to be the
standard-bearer of free speech even if his company’s policies “piss off a lot
of people”. Zuckerberg told CNN that he plans to draw a line in the sand when
it comes to censorship as he thinks Facebook is taking on too much of that
responsibility. He says that the company will continue to remove the most
harmful content and also discussed plans to ramp up encryption on Facebook’s
messaging service. Zuckerberg has remained steadfast in maintaining Facebook’s
policy of leaving up false statements by politicians in their ads.

Courts routinely use pre-trial assessment tools to determine
the likelihood that a defendant will flee if they’re released on bail. The
higher the flight risk, the more pre-trial supervision the court will impose. The
data these tools rely on includes data on past arrests. But a new study from the Human Rights Data
Analysis Group and San Francisco Public Defenders Office notes that many of
those arrests lead to acquittals. But despite the acquittals, the study found,
courts recommended a higher level of pre-trial supervision in 27% of cases that
include prior arrest data in their pre-trial assessment tools.

The American
Civil Liberties Union is pushing back against legislation in Puerto Rico that
aims to bring voting fully online by 2028. The ACLU is asking Puerto Rico’s Governor
Wanda Vázquez to veto the bill after it passes the Legislative Assembly of
Puerto Rico, which is expected to happen this week. Lawyers for the century-old
advocacy organization argue that the plan is extremely susceptible to hacks and
poses significant cybersecurity risks that threaten to undermine Puerto Ricans’
trust in the government.

The House
Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy launched an
investigation into dating platforms’ failure to prevent underage users from
signing up. Members of the subcommittee wrote Bumble, Grindr, The Meet Group,
the Match Group, Tinder, and OkCupid seeking documents pertaining to any
policies they have in place to prevent underage users pretending that they’re over
18 and sex offenders from lurking on the platforms. The documents are due to
the subcommittee on February 13.

Bloomberg reports that in the midst of the opioid crisis, between
2016 and 2019, electronic health records company Practice Fusion pushed alerts
encouraging opioid treatment on 230 million separate occasions. A Vermont federal court says the company has
agreed to pay $145 million in civil and criminal damages.

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